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This Gallup poll is nothing but bad news for the media. While institutional trust is in a state of mass collapse, the media’s collapse is truly catastrophic. In 2021, 13% of independents had a great deal of confidence in television news compared to 6% of Republicans. It’s now at 8% for both. What that means…

Biden repeatedly claims credit for the COVID-19 vaccines developed under Trump as part of Operation Warp Speed, so why not also take credit for defeating ISIS? In an op-ed for the Washington Post titled, “Why I’m going to Saudi Arabia”, a collection of random talking points that seem to have been a collaboration between the…

With Biden the question is always how much of it is age and how much of it is him. Anyone who has followed Biden over the years knows that he has a knack for saying stupid and terrible things, and that he’s convinced that he’s a genius in his own mind. Obama and his people held…

Twitter, eager to censor any conservative story, has no problem with this. ShutDownDC, a liberal advocacy group in Washington, D.C., said on Friday that it will offer up to $250 to service industry workers in the district for every sighting of the justices who overturned Roe v. Wade. I’ve written about ShutDownDC before and its entanglement…

After pro-abortion activists forced Justice Kavanaugh to leave a steakhouse, after an assassination plot against him, lefties harassed the steakhouse and the media hosted a debate over whether conservatives have a “right to eat dinner”. There’s no right to eat dinner. Lefties define everything in terms of rights and keep inventing new ones, like the…

As bad as the oughts were, at least the Iraqi information minister wasn’t doing a non-stop tour of Washington D.C. After spending months denying loudly that there were any problems, then seizing on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to blame all the problems on Putin (or on corporate greed, depending which side of the coin lands…

Back in April, I wrote that, “The tight integration and interrelationship of Big Tech means that Musk won’t be allowed to take over Twitter. And he knows it too. I suspect this is a game whose upshot will be demonstrating the narrow limits of competition and mobility in a landscape dominated by a handful of…

When a politician finally goes down, the loyalists extricate themselves and write their memoirs.  Lis Smith, who worked for Spitzer and Cuomo, is doing that in a high-profile way with her book. Anything you needed to know about her can be summed up in this excerpt. Political strategist Lis Smith casts Bill de Blasio as…